GIRL THIEF

Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1935, Page 5

GIRL THIEF

STRANGE GLASGOW CASE LONDON. June 22. An eighteen-ycar-old girl, described by the prosecutor in Glasgow Sheriff Court as an ardent church worker, admitted the ti'ieft of nearly. 200,000 articles of jewellery from a city warehouse. The stolen property was said to be worth £3093, and had been disposed of to a. Jewish resetter. Her sentence of two months’ imprisonment was dated from her arrest and she left the court free. The girl was Elizabeth Hean Hill, and she was accused of acting with W illiam Graham Sloan and Mrs Margaret Cowan in stealing the articles. They pleaded guilty. Mr J. D. vStrathern, the fiscal, said Hill was employed by a wholesale warehouse as principal assistant in the ieweilerv department. Jewellery orders were mostly received by post, and it was her job to- make up and despatch the parcels. “She began a practice of collecting large quantities of goods which had not been ordered,” Mr Strathern added, “The' girl received twenty-one shillings a week as wages, and was handing £3 to £4 a week to her mother, accounting for it as commission and bonuses. “It is extraordinary that practically all the money she got went to the household. There is no suggestion turn* she was spending it in any other way.’ Sloan and Cowan were sentenced to live months from their arrest on ---•DCIi 13.